Heerenveen

Heerenveen is the sports capital of the . The town is famously home to the Thialf stadium, the largest indoor ice arena in the country and the stage for many international ice skating tournaments.
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  • Type: Locality with 43,100 residents
  • Description: municipality in the Netherlands
  • Also known as: It Hearrenfean
  • Postal codes: 8441-8448
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Abe Lenstra Stadion and Heerenveen railway station.

Stadium
is a football stadium, located in Heerenveen, . It is currently used mostly as a home ground for Eredivisie club Heerenveen. The current capacity is 27,224.

Railway station
Heerenveen is the main railway station in Heerenveen, . The station opened on 15 January 1868 and is on the Arnhem–Leeuwarden railway. The services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen.

Sports venue
is an ice arena in Heerenveen, . is used for long track speed skating, short track speed skating, ice hockey, figure skating, ice speedway, and non-sporting events.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Langezwaag and Heerenveen.

is a small village in the Dutch province of . It has around 1,050 residents.

Town
is a town.

Village
is a village in in the province of , the . It had a population of around 1980 in 2017.

Heerenveen

Latitude
52.9593° or 52° 57′ 33″ north
Longitude
5.9185° or 5° 55′ 7″ east
Population
43,100
IATA airport code
QYZ
United Nations Location Code
NL HRV
Open location code
9F47XW59+PC
Geo­Names ID
2754669
Wiki­data ID
Q574558
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Heerenveen” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Heerenveen
  • Albanian: Heerenveen
  • Arabic: هيرينفين
  • Aragonese: It Hearrenfean
  • Armenian: Հեյրենվեյն
  • Asturian: Heerenveen
  • Basque: Heerenveen
  • Belarusian: Гээрэнвээн
  • Belarusian: Херэнвен
  • Bulgarian: Херенвен
  • Catalan: Heerenveen
  • Cebuano: Gemeente Heerenveen
  • Chinese: Heerenveen
  • Chinese: 海伦芬
  • Chinese: 海倫芬
  • Czech: Heerenveen
  • Danish: Heerenveen
  • Dutch: Gemeente Heerenveen
  • Dutch: Heerenveen (gemeente)
  • Dutch: Heerenveen
  • Esperanto: Heerenveen
  • Faroese: Heerenveen
  • Finnish: Heerenveen
  • French: Heerenveen
  • German: Heerenveen
  • Greek: Χερενφέιν
  • Hakka Chinese: Heerenveen
  • Hebrew: הירנפיין
  • Hungarian: Heerenveen
  • Indonesian: Heerenveen
  • Irish: Heerenveen
  • Italian: Heerenveen
  • Japanese: ヘーレンフェーン
  • Javanese: Heerenveen
  • Korean: 헤이렌베인
  • Kurdish: Heerenveen (şaredarî)
  • Kurdish: Heerenveen
  • Ladin: Heerenveen
  • Latvian: Hērenvēna
  • Limburgan: Heerenveen
  • Limburgan: Hereveen
  • Lithuanian: Herenvenas
  • Low German: Et Vene
  • Luxembourgish: Heerenveen
  • Macedonian: Херенвен
  • Macedonian: Херенфен
  • Malay: Heerenveen
  • Min Nan Chinese: Heerenveen
  • Northern Frisian: Heerenveen
  • Northern Frisian: It Hearrenfean
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Heerenveen
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Heerenveen
  • Norwegian: Heerenveen
  • Persian: هیرن‌فین
  • Persian: هیرنفین
  • Polish: Heerenveen
  • Portuguese: Heerenveen
  • Romanian: Heerenveen
  • Russian: Херенвен
  • Saterfriesisch: It Hearrenfean
  • Scots: Heerenveen
  • Silesian: Heerenveen
  • Slovenian: Heerenveen
  • Spanish: Heerenveen
  • Swedish: Heerenveen
  • Turkish: Heerenveen
  • Ukrainian: Геренвен
  • Urdu: ہیرنوین
  • Venetian: Heerenveen
  • Vietnamese: Heerenveen
  • Volapük: Heerenveen
  • Waray (Philippines): Heerenveen
  • Welsh: Heerenveen
  • Western Frisian: It Hearrenfean
  • Wu Chinese: 海伦芬
  • Yue Chinese: 海倫芬
  • Zeeuws: Eêrenveen
  • Zeeuws: Heêrenveen
  • Heerenveen

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